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Web App Development

Building a web application for your business can completely transform your operations, efficiency, revenue and profitability.

Businesses invest in web applications usually for one (or more) of three key reasons:

1 - You have a specific business problem which requires you to either create or improve process and efficiency. In turn you are probably looking to deliver outputs like increased sales, operational savings, increased capacity, all of which can drive profitability, help your organisation scale and yield substantial return on investment.

2 - You want to create competitive advantage; has your business spotted an opportunity to capitalise market share by offering a unique proposition through the use of technology.

3 - Or you’ve developed proprietary intellectual property which you wish to monetise and turn into a software as a service application to drive revenue and grow a new revenue channel.

Over the last ten years we’ve helped hundreds of organisations by delivering bespoke web applications. Recently we’ve delivered a full digital transformation project for a building energy management business a bespoke CRM for the UKs largest packaging supplier and a bespoke workflow tool for a solutions partner to the UKs largest vehicle leasing companies.

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We have worked with many companies; turning ideas into business changing software solutions

Web App Development

Our team are passionate that great software makes a difference to your business. This means we’re fully invested in the partnership from the start. Our relationship is built through transparency and trust and our approach is completely collaborative. Our purpose is to create web applications which are a perfect fit for your business, which are intuitive to use and can deliver a clear return on your investment.

In partnership we work to understand your current processes and help re-engineer them when required to enable us to meet the required need or solve the specific problem to create the most efficient and effective application. Our tried and tested project process guarantees we’ll great results for you, discover more about the steps a project goes through here.

The deliverables could be a mix of platforms dependant on the business requirement. For example a mobile app that allows field staff to log jobs which feeds into a hosted web based application with a workflow management and crm system.

We love working on interesting and challenging projects, for this reason we are sector agnostic finding that our experience across many sectors often helps our clients create innovative solutions in their own sector. For example we’ve developed software across many disciplines including:

Lead Management Software

Job and Workflow Management Software

Process Management Software

Custom E-Commerce Solutions

Scheduling Software

Payment Processing

Fleet Administration Software

Health & Safety Management Software

Membership Management Software

Management Reporting Software

Supplier Relationship Management Software

Warehouse Management Software

Timesheet & Time Logging Software

Sales Processing Software

Bookings Management Software

HR Management Software

Bespoke CRM Software

Driver License Checking Software

Content Management Software

Vehicle Rate Management Software

RFL Bulk Ordering & Management Software

Events and Ticketing Management Software

Customer Portals

Employee Portals

Recruitment Assessment Software

E-Learning Software

Enquiry Management Software

Workflow Management Software

Penalty Fines Management Software

Furniture Design Software

Quoting & Invoice Software

Document Management Software

Sales Pipeline Software

Inventory Management Software

Supply Chain Management Software

Questionnaire & Survey Systems

Data Reporting Software

Third Party Integrations

Value Pricing Software

Triage & Healthcare Assessment Software

Benchmarking Software

Any many more…

We'd love to help you to. To discuss your software project give us a call on 01527 919980 or contact us.

How We Can Help

Legacy System Replacement

Software Development Rescue

Redeveloping Excel based systems

Redeveloping Access based systems

New Software Applications

Mobile Apps

Web Based Software Development

Microsoft .Net Development (C# Development)

Cloud Development

Custom Written Software

Software Integrations

UI/UX Prototyping

Software Consultancy

Software Scoping

Software Maintenance and Support

"Finding a supplier you can trust to consistently deliver on time, in budget & with a smile - is priceless!"

"IO Studios have been an exceptional partner for us to work with. Their attention to detail, customer focused approach and innovative processes have meant that we have been able to develop our IT solution, become established market leaders in our sector and drive our business forwards."

"The system used by our staff is user friendly and enables detailed reporting which was previously not an option for us. The system is easy to navigate with a contemporary design and many great features. I can’t speak highly enough of IO Studio’s team, who have offered ongoing training and innovative ideas for future development"

"IO Studios were incredibly thorough in their approach and came up with ideas and solutions I would have never thought of."

"I approached IO Studios to create some software and the whole project from proposal to completion was done in 6 weeks. An amazing turnaround. Not only that, it then took them just 3 more weeks to create a phase two which I only gave them just as the main project was completed. The team are incredibly responsive and they understood exactly what I was looking to achieve."

Examples of our work

Cloud Pricing

Cloud Pricing is an easy to use and effective quotes system for accountants developed on the principles of bestselling author Mark Wickersham’s philosophy of Value Based Pricing.

The Shakespeare Hospice

IO Studios work closely with the fundraising team at The Shakespeare Hospice to continually develop the features and functionality of the website, ensuring it continues to be a critical platform for communication and giving.

Aspire Accountancy Website

IO Studios developed a modern and engaging new responsive website which clearly outlines the companies service offering and positions the company as a leading company in their sector. A fully content managed website allows Aspire Accountancy to manage the website fully in house.

Rhymes Nursery Website

IO Studios developed a modern and engaging new responsive website which clearly outlines the companies ethos, we also performed localised search engine optimisation to improve ranking performance. A fully content managed website allows Rhymes Nursery to manage the website fully in house.

We’re passionate that great software makes a difference to our client’s businesses, therefore we don’t want to make assumptions or take chances. It’s imperative right from the start, we ask questions, build a solid understanding of the business and formulate a precise plan to deliver software you’ll be ecstatic about and that’ll be truly business changing.

Collaboratively we undertake a series of discovery exercises, to build our understanding. One of the hardest things many people struggle with is conceptualising how the software will behave and how functionally it will perform. To ensure you are getting exactly what you require we use advanced software to build a functioning model of your software. This prototype accurately shows how each of the screens with look and how they will function, because it is visual it helps avoid assumption so that each party can be clearly agreed on what is to be development. Prototypes are accompanied by flow diagrams and written user stories.

No, never all of our development is done by our own highly talented team based at our offices in Redditch, Worcestershire. This ensures we have complete control over the development process and quality.

No, our clients are under no obligation to stay with us, our projects are designed so that they can be picked up by another competent Microsoft technologies developer or development house. Our experience shows that our clients enter into a true partnership with us, ensuring that our relationships are continuous.

We talk in plain English – no Jargon. If you’ve got team members who want to talk geek, we are quite happy to do that too. It’s important you understand everything about your project, for that we stick to plain English. Our product team are highly skilled business systems people, who can do any necessary geek to English translations which might be required.

We guarantee to be transparent and honest in our approach, this means we’ll keep you fully informed if we identify risk to the project, this could be a change in requirement, missing information, creep or slippage.

Once your project is underway you’ll be set up with access to our online project management software which will allow you to keep track of progress and access the project prototype and documentation. Messaging and question are sent through it, providing one central place where all communication about the project is held. During the development the product team will be in regular communication and at the end of every sprint cycle you will be invite for a presentation of the work produced.

Transformative projects are a true partnership between our businesses. You should be prepared to invest the amount of time it takes to deliver the result your business requires.

If you are embarking on a project across multiple department and functions of your business you will need to ensure the relevant stakeholders have visibility of the project from the on-set and brief them on your expectations.

You’ll need to appoint a project sponsor from your organisation, this is the person responsible for leading the project and ultimately has the final say on your requirement.

The cost will ultimately come down to your requirements. We’ve delivered enough projects over the last 10 years to have a good understanding of what it takes to deliver different types of software applications. After our initial conversations we can prepare estimates of budgets and timescales.

Our discovery, planning and prototyping are usually conducted on a fixed fee basis. From then, we are able to offer two commercial models for the development of your software.

Agile (Scrum); our team work in efficient 2-week sprints to develop the software in an iterative way. Agile is the most popular and effective method of delivering larger scale or complicated software projects where the scope of the project is difficult to define. This model allows you to complete your project in the shortest possible time scale and benefit from paying on a discounted time model.

Fixed Priced; This model can be used when the functional and technical requirements of a project can be clearly defined into a precise and executable specification document prior to development. This model is only offered on smaller sized projects with a budget below £50,000.

Our product team will be in close contact with you via the phone, email and screenshares throughout the project.

At the end of every two week sprint cycle you will be invited for a presentation of the work completed during that sprint. The product team and developers involved will present to you the user stories delivered as part of that cycle.

Working using Agile allows us to embrace change into a project and easily deal with change requests. Changes can be made to the development requirements up to the point a sprint begins, providing the request has no dependencies which have not yet been developed. This allows the backlog of development to be managed in accordance with your priorities as a business.

Producing great quality software our absolute passion. Our testing and quality processes ensure that the software we develop is created the highest possible standard. Delivering great quality is the responsibility of all of our team. To do this we use the right mix of both unit testing and human testing. Our development team is responsible for creating high quality, error-free code in line with our coding standards, they do this through peer-review, automated and unit tests. Our product team then test all visual and functional elements of the software against the software prototype, validating the user experience and user stories meet the client’s requirement. A separate UAT environment is then provided for you to independently test your software where you can log bugs and provide your own feedback.

If you do not have access to hosting infrastructure we can help to architect and arrange appropriate hosting for you. The majority of the applications we develop are hosted within Microsoft Azure, and this is generally our recommendation. We offer a managed service whereby we host your application on your behalf on our own infrastructure or a direct service whereby you contract your own environment directly for Microsoft Azure from your own chosen infrastructure provider.

When your project is completed and live, we offer a 30 day break-fix warranty on the software, any bugs or defects which you encounter will be resolved by our team free of charge. This tends to be minimal, with most of these issues being picked up in UAT prior to deployment. During this period your Product Owner will be on hand to ensure smooth transition.

Post the warranty period we offer support through a managed service level agreement (SLA), with guaranteed response times and priority levels. An SLA should be adopted for any business critical software application which could incur you financial or reputational loss.

Our support team are on hand during business hours to help resolve any problems or questions you or your team might encounter.

If a SLA isn’t right for your business we offer pay as you go break-fix support, purchased though on account support tokens. Support tokens are offered on a best endeavours basis and are not recommended for business critical applications.

We have worked with many companies; turning ideas into business changing software solutions